Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

This month, a total lunar eclipse and blood moon will be viewable across the U.S. Here's the best times and places to view ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander made the most of its last few hours of life on the moon. The solar ... after the sun set over its lunar locale. The lander watched our star's descent ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

Saturn's high moon count might also stem from the composition of the objects orbiting. As per Mr Sheppard, Saturn is further from the Sun, meaning it probably captured more icy objects that could ...

While February’s grand planetary parade might be behind us, March will still afford good opportunities to see many of the parade’s participants—especially Mercury. The solar system’s ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found ... Starting closest to the sun, our home star's nearest neighbors, Mercury and Venus, have no true moons because of their proximity to ...

India's first sun-studying spacecraft, Aditya-L1, has captured one of our star's fiery outbursts in ... director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, said in another ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

The orbit Venus takes around the sun results in an inferior conjunction as it transitions from appearing in the evening sky to the morning sky.